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Am I backing up right location?

My original backup Borg script backed up docker/immich/upload*
But now I've created a profile my assets are under: docker/immich/library/library/harry

When I point to my variables in the backup script, the Borg config.yaml file, I'm afraid I'm not backing up the right data. I'd appreciate if you could help me figure out if I'm really backing up assets and database.

Here's my Borgmatic docker mounts:

- /volume1/docker/immich/backups:/mnt/source/immich/backups:ro
- /volume1/docker/immich/redis:/mnt/source/immich/redis:ro
- /volume1/docker/immich/cache:/mnt/source/immich/cache:ro
- /volume1/docker/immich/upload:/mnt/source/immich/upload:ro

- /volume1/docker/borgmatic/repository:/mnt/borg-repository

- /volume1/docker/borgmatic/borgmatic.d:/etc/borgmatic.d
- /volume1/docker/borgmatic/config:/root/.config/borg
- /volume1/docker/borgmatic/ssh:/root/.ssh
- /volume1/docker/borgmatic/cache:/root/.cache/borg
- /volume1/docker/borgmatic/state:/root/.local/state/borgmatic

And a snippet of my config.yaml for Borgmatic :

location:
- /mnt/source/immich/upload
- /mnt/source/immich/backups/immich-database.sql.gz

repositories:
- /mnt/borg-repository

And a snippet of the script, started by Synology task manager

#!/bin/bash

export IMMICH_DB_USERNAME="immichuser"
export IMMICH_DB_PASSWORD="immichpw"

IMMICH_POSTGRES_CONTAINER="immich-db"
BORG_CONTAINER="borgmatic"
DUMP_FILE_PATH="/volume1/docker/immich/backups/immich-database.sql"

docker start $BORG_CONTAINER
sleep 10 # 10 second delay to ensure container is running

docker exec -t -e PGPASSWORD=$IMMICH_DB_PASSWORD $IMMICH_POSTGRES_CONTAINER \
pg_dumpall --clean --if-exists --username=$IMMICH_DB_USERNAME | gzip > "${DUMP_FILE_PATH}.gz"

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "ERROR: Database dump failed. Please check the '$IMMICH_POSTGRES_CONTAINER' container logs for details."
exit 1
fi

docker exec $BORG_CONTAINER borgmatic -v 1
config_copy.yaml1.44KB
immich_backup.sh1.24KB
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